As a Charleston High student, he lived at the Alderson Hotel on Virginia Street, where the United Bank building's park and fountain now sit. The location offered Hundley easy access to the city's choicest poolrooms, the Strand and the Arcade. A portion of the movie is expected to focus on the Charleston native's difficult youth in a crowded residential area now occupied by Charleston Town Center and the Civic Center. Hundley, who starred for West Virginia and played for the Minneapolis-Los Angeles Lakers, lived for about 10 years with George and Mamie Sharp, a couple who lived on Clendenin Street at the approximate location of Bennigan's. In a nice gesture in 1959, the Lakers scheduled a regular-season game at the new Civic Center in Hundley's hometown, but the city's segregation policy at the time led to an incident that gained national attention. Laker rookie Elgin Baylor, one of three blacks on the team, declined to play when he and the two others were denied accommodations at a C...
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